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lingual swellings

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Term info

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Subsets

emapa_ehdaa2

UBPROP 0000001

Primordium of the tongue; the median swelling and the distal and proximal swellings arise from the ventral aspect of the stomodeum. [TFD][VHOG]

UBPROP 0000003

Most adult amphibians have a tongue, as do all known reptiles, birds and mammals. Thus it is likely that the tongue appeared with the establishment of tetrapods and this structure seems to be related, to some extant, to the terrestrial lifestyle.[well established][VHOG]

comment

the collection consisting of the two lateral swellings and the medial swelling

has related synonym

lingual swelling

id

UBERON:0006260